Native American confronts protestors on illegal immigration

While I sympathize with First Nations and the way they have been treated in the past and the ramifications of that past in the present (I'm a social worker in northernish Saskatchewan) I think the past needs to be the past. At this point in time me, my parents and my grandparents are just as mush Canadian as First Nations people. We were born here and shouldn't be held responsible for the decisions people in the past made.

If my great, great, great grandfather was a serial killer, should I be treated like one? Of course not. If my past relatives were racist scumbags bent on eliminates First Nations people (they weren't. They were pacifist Mennonites fleeing persecution in Prussia) should I be treated as if I have the same intentions? Of course not.
 
I'm not illegal, I was born here. What he's saying is the same as saying that everybody in the world is an illegal immigrant in their country. Just because my very distant ancestors lived during a time where being a racist bigot was the norm doesn't mean I should feel bad for a modern day american indian or anyone for that matter. I don't understand how people can be judged based on the actions of people who died over 100 years ago.
 
hitler's favorite american president was andrew jackson. he admired jackson's extermination policies that included long forced marches, concentration camps, starvation, etc. the US government carried out a deliberate policy of EXTERMINATION against native americans. Hitler used many of these same extermination techniques against the slavs, roma, jews, homosexuals, etc.
 
wow are you braindead?

do you not comprehend the supreme idiocy of the retard tea party patriot freaks getting their jimmies rustled over the ILLEGALS and the MEXICANS. we all know the anti-immigration crowd are a bunch of racist swine that would welcome a Hitler as their savior in a heartbeat

 
Nobody is saying white people should be treated like a bunch of colonialists who murdered people and took there land. They're saying that it happened.

The guy in the video is just giving them shit because of all their signs and chanting. Probably things like "this is our land and we don't want people ruining it." "we were here first." "we've been here for generations and worked hard for it."

While all of those quotes may be true, it applies to natives more than it does European descendants.

My mind is blown at all the people who can't wrap their head around that guy in the video's point. Not directed at the guy I'm quoting, but this is why internationally Americans are known for being a bunch of dumb hicks. It's not just a few of you. The majority in this thread seems to either be ignoring fact or just plain missing the point.

Inb4 people get mad at me.
 
america was built by slaves and it's maintained by illegals. go ahead, kick them out, see how it works out for you. you might have to start cleaning your own toilets.
 
Come on K-Rob really? Slaves didn't build my home or anything in Colorado that I am aware of, and I clean my own toilet.
 
When 1 million people start hopping the boarder into Canada per year, then we can start discussing this. Europe never used to have an immigration problem. Now it does, and the economic impact is huge and undeniable. It has nothing to do with jobs and working. There are only so many jobs that "citizens won't do". What do the rest of the illegal immigrants do?
 
Most people don't seem to realize that a huge portion of our work force and ecomony relies on cheap labor. That native Amiercan was the shit. after studying their lives through colonization to the 1950's, it's horrific what the anglo saxon man as inflicted on the native americans
 
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